What You Should Know About Teeth Whitening Gel

Tooth whitening gel can whiten your teeth, make you look great and smile a whole lot more without paying hundreds for professional teeth whitening gel treatments. It helps to restore the natural whiteness of your teeth.

Small in size and flexible, teeth whitening strips are coated with whitening bleach on one side. To use them, you place a strip on the upper teeth and another strip on the lower strip and leave them on for about half an hour. You apply the strips twice a day, ideally in the mornings and nights.

Tooth whitening gels are of different types with different concentration and constituent chemicals. Therefore there are different types of tooth whitening gel in the market. All of them contain carbon amide peroxide or hydrogen peroxide as the main chemical agent present in the gel. The carbon amide peroxide usually breaks down to give hydrogen peroxide as the main chemical agent and urea. So hydrogen peroxide is the chemical agent that actually brings about the tooth whitening process.

Children who are above two years of age can also use tooth-whitening gels. Since these gels contain no fluoride, the possibility of toxicity due to the swallowing of the gel is ruled out. Tooth-whitening gels function on the whitening effects of carbamide peroxide. This provides the vitamins C and E, and these ingredients stimulate the production of healthy mouth tissues and fight the germs that cause bad breath, without the aid of alcohol or other harmful ingredients.

As far as costs are involved, each dentist has a set price on how much they will charge you, generally the first treatment is the cheapest. As long as you get follow up treatments then the cost is generally reduced. As with anything it is important to not go overboard when whitening your teeth, to much bleach based gel can weaken your teeth. So be careful and have fun with your brand new smile!